Meet Your Care Team

Expert support. Collaborative care. Personalized for you.

At Arizona Connection Counseling, we believe healing happens through safe connection with your therapist. Since your relationship with your therapist is incredibly personal, we get that it needs to be just the right fit—someone who really gets you and understands your story.

That’s why we’ve brought together a team of warm, trusted specialists who work collaboratively to offer you the most effective care. Each of our clinicians has deep expertise in their focus area, whether that’s trauma recovery, couples therapy, faith integration, or emotional regulation. But more than that—they care deeply about helping you feel seen, supported, and empowered.

When you reach out to us, we don’t just match you with any therapist. We help you find the right therapist for your needs, your personality, and your goals—so therapy feels like a good fit from the start.

Whether you’re brand new to therapy or have tried it before without success, you deserve a therapy experience that truly supports change.

Welcome to a team that meets you where you are.

Our Trusted Specialists

Each therapist at Arizona Connection Counseling brings their own clinical expertise, style, and focus—and all share a commitment to creating a safe, compassionate space for healing.

What Makes Our Team Different?

  • Collaboration: Our therapists consult with each other regularly, so you get the benefit of shared wisdom and support.
  • Trauma-Informed: Every clinician is trained to create emotional safety and work at your pace.
  • Specialized: We pair you with someone who truly understands your concern—no guesswork, no generic treatment.
  • Faith-Sensitive: We have therapists who understand the way your personal value system has shaped you into the person you are today.
  • Client-Centered: We don’t just treat symptoms—we help you reconnect with who you are and what matters to you

Not Sure Where to Start?

That’s okay. Many of our clients aren’t sure which therapist is the right fit—and we’re happy to help.

Eating Disorders - It's Not About the Food

By Kelly Lopez

If it’s not about the food, what is it really about?

The eating disorder serves a function, it does a job. Despite the problems an eating disorder creates, it is an effort to cope, shield against, communicate, and solve problems. Behaviors may be a way to establish a sense of power or control, self-worth, strength, and containment. Bringing may be used to numb pain. Purging may be a way to release emotions. When one cannot cope in healthy ways, adaptive functions (behaviors) are created to ensure a sense of safety, security, and control.
According to Carolyn Costin*, some of the “adaptive functions that eating disorder behaviors commonly serve are”:
It’s not about the food, it’s a way of coping with low self-esteem, negative emotions, physical, emotional, and sexual abuse, unstable home, difficulty resolving conflict and much more.
*Costin, Carolyn. The Eating Disorder Sourcebook: A Comprehensive Guide to the Causes, Treatments and Prevention of Eating Disorders. 3rd. edition, McGraw Hill, 2007.
Fuller, Kristen. “Eating Disorders: It’s Not All about Food.” Psychology Today, Sussex Publishers, 22 Mar. 2017